March Invention and Innovation Fun Facts

Here are some valuable inventions from the Irish to celebrate on St. Patrick's Day, March 17:

• Bacon curing was reinvented by Henry Denny in 1820 to produce bacon rashers.
  
• The hypodermic needle was invented by Francis Rynd in 1844.
  
• The first practical method of color photography was invented by John Joly in 1894.
• The binaural stethoscope was invented by Arthur Leared and introduced at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London.
  

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